Mashing Sonia Sotomayor and Sandra Day O’Connor, Russ Douthat wonders about a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/opinion/20douthat.html"race relationos and affirmative action in 2028/a.br /br /Douthat puts his nut graf near the bottom:br /blockquote Affirmative action has always been understandable, but never ideal. It congratulates its practitioners on their virtue, condescends to its beneficiaries, and corrodes the racial attitudes of its victims./blockquotebr /I agree that affirmative action, of today, though not originally, is less than ideal. The best corrective, and I’m not alone on this, would be making it class-based, not just race or ethnicity focuses. But Douthat ignores that idea entirely.br /br /As for O’Connor, my biggest problem with her statement is that by putting a hard deadline on when she wants affirmative action to end, that makes it tempting, and easy if the temptation is indulged, to try to “run out the clock.”div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-2531253417341013668?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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